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The biophysicist shared the 1989 Prize in Chemistry for discovering RNA’s catalytic properties.

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1989 was awarded jointly to Sidney Altman and Thomas R. Cech "for their discovery of catalytic properties of RNA".

Sidney Altman, who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1989 for discovering the catalytic properties of RNA, died April 5. He was 82.

Molecular biologist Jeff Coller joins Johns Hopkins As a Bloomberg Distinguished Professor, he will hold appointments in the Krieger School of Arts and Sciences and the School of Medicine By Saralyn Cruickshank / Published March 16, 2021 It was during a research semester abroad in Stockholm, home of the Nobel Prize, that molecular biologist Jeff Coller discovered "scientist" was a viable career path for him, and it was a discovery that he calls magical. Just a few years earlier, biologists Sidney Altman and Thomas Cech had won the Nobel Prize for thei...